What dried good items do you folks purchase for your food storage?

You definitely need something to protect the mylar. I forgot to do that with some dried corn once. I hadn't been having a mouse problem but I sure got a big one after a mouse got in and found it.

I buy bulk, usually 50lb sacks of rice, beans, lentils, dried potatoes, powdered milk, sugar, salt, potato gems, oats, quinoa, and many other things.
Depending on density of the food, I usually get one 5gal bucket and three 1gal mylar bags full. Most of the bags weigh in around 5lbs each, depending. The buckets get the mylar sealed with the appropriate O2 absorber and a gamma seal lid. The lids are a little spendy but I much prefer them to the snap on lids. Especially once I open a bucket and start using it.
What I do with the one gallon bags is that I assemble sort of a meal plan of different items. Like oats, milk, dried friut for breakfast, rice and beans for lunch, rice and/or potatoes and beans or lentils for dinner. Some bags of dehydrated vegetables as well. I also mylar up smaller packages of things like cinnamon, sugar, salt, pepper, spices, butter powder, garlic, etc. and add them to the pile. I usually toss in a couple packs of pork/fatback or whatever it's called that store for a good while at room temperature. You find it out in the aisle in the meat section of the grocery store. That's for some fats. But they have to be changed out periodically. There's more but I can't recall all of the contents at the moment. There is enough room left to throw in a couple cans of chicken, tuna, ham or beef at the last minute.
All of this gets stored in a number of sort of a half size heavy duty storage bin with lid. I figure each one of these totes has enough food for two people to eat pretty well for two weeks.
The intended purposes of these (aside from needing to store the gallon bags in something anyway) are to give us somewhat a complete diet for a period of time that we can toss into a vehicle(s) if we suddenly saw the need to vamoose. Grab a couple, few of those and bolt. They may also be a parting gift for relatives or friends who show up but that we had not planned on feeding long term. Maybe for a good neighbor or other ally to keep them going while we figure things out. At least I can give them something.
Or we can just eat out of them ourselves, maybe in the beginning.
As mentioned, you will want to start looking at a water plan as well.
Have fun and I look forward to reading about your progress!

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What dried good items do you folks purchase for your food storage?